Questionnaire ‘We Europeans’

Basisschool Lavoor

Roosendaal, The Netherlands

Introduction

The questionnaire was made by the students of the 5th – 8th class.In total 181 students made the questionnaire. They are between 9 and 12 years old. 178 students knew the name of our project.

Most of the children mentioned their name, age, school and hometown. They talked about their hobbies. These are the hobbies that were most common:

In general: tennis, playing outside, hockey, playing an instrument (guitar,harp, flute, drumms etc.), playing with their pets and drawing

Boys: playing computergames, soccer

Girls: dancing, singing, horsebackriding, gymnastics

The purpose of this project

1) Learn about other countries and their pupils

-> 155 students

2) Learn about school in other countries

-> 153 students

3) Learn new languages

-> 122 students

4) Visit new places

-> 88 students

5) Make / meet new friends

-> 73 students

Finding the 8 countries

1) Holland 180

2) United Kingdom 147

3) Italy 145

4) Poland 135

5) Turkey 129

6) Czech Republic 118

7) Hellas 68

8) Lithuania 65

Matching the capitals to the countries

1. Amsterdam – The Netherlands 178

2. Rome – Italy 170

3. London – England 154

4. Athens – Greece 121

5. Ankara – Turkey 102

6. Prague – Czech Republic 71

7. Warsaw – Poland 65

8. Vilnius – Lithuania 56

What comes to your mind?

Italy:

Holiday, Venice, pizza, pasta, shape of a boot, tower of Pisa,

icecream, Vatican, spaghetti, Elba, vulcano, Milan.

England:

English bus, island, Big Ben, Tower Bridge, William & Kate,

beans, driving on the left side of the road, London, soccer,

guards (at the castle), breakfast with bacon and eggs, British

accent, the olympics, millenium wheel.

Greece:

Sun, hot, sea, financial crisis, restaurants, art, Kos, islands, stray

cats, temples, olives, giros.

Turkey:

Holiday, hot, kebab, ½ in Europe, hotels, mosque, darker skin,

dark hair, Ankara, hamam.

Czech Republic:

Landscape, mountains, good soccer-team, Prague, flag with

the same colours as the Dutch flag.

Poland:

Cold, snow, Warsaw, the flag, European soccer

Championship, foxes, not many jobs - > a lot of people from

Poland are working in The Netherlands.

Lithuania:

We talked to them on skype, Vilnius.

How to say goodmorning

1) Holland 181

2) United Kingdom 178

3) Italy 93

4) Turkey 73

5) Greece 67

6) Poland 50

7) Czech Republic 46

8) Lithuania 33

What we would like to learn:

1) What does your school look like?

2) What type of books do you use in class?

3) How dou you live?

4) What language do you speak?

5) How is the weather in your country?

6) What type of food do you eat?

7) How do you celebrate your birthday?

8) In what type of house do you live?

9) Which sports are popular in your country?

10) What type of holidays and celebrations do you have?

What do we have in common?

1) We all go to school.

2) We all participate in this project.

3) Our countries are part of the EU.

4) We all live in Europe.

5) We are all human beings.

6) We are alle children and teachers.

7) The Euro (in some countries)

Drawing and colouring the flags.

1. The Netherlands 160

2. Italy 128

3. England 115

4. Poland 108

5. Greece 96

6. Turkey 95

7. Czech Republic 86

8. Lithuania 26